

On pain, desperation and chiropractors
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 21, 2025
Alternative health peddlers get rich exploiting desperate sufferers of intractable ailments or pain, often with disastrous consequences. There are few things more likely to motivate

In Memoriam: Roger David Crawford (10 September 1944 − 19 March 2025)
- By Daily Friend
- . Mar 21, 2025
Roger Crawford, who has died after a short illness, is remembered as a committed and influential liberal who straddled modern South Africa’s historic watershed, engaging

I could never stop following Steyn …
- By Simon Lincoln Reader
- . Mar 21, 2025
I couldn’t even try being impartial when writing about the broadcaster Mark Steyn because he’s all I’ve ever really known. Most impressions I have of

Cutting the fiscal fat
- By Reuben Coetzer
- . Mar 21, 2025
If words were actions, South Africa would have the sleekest, most efficient government on the planet. Budget speeches and reform proposals promise leaner administration, cost-cutting,

Why SA needs a ground-up policing approach
- By Juanita du Preez
- . Mar 21, 2025
When South Africa transitioned to democracy in 1994, the new government adopted community policing as its strategy to combat crime. The theory was sound: a

Cricket’s continuing race madness
- By Marius Roodt
- . Mar 20, 2025
Over the weekend the Dolphins – the Durban-based provincial cricket franchise – won the One-Day Cup, defeating Boland in Paarl by four wickets, reaching the

Answering 13 questions about the Index of Race Law
- By Martin van Staden
- . Mar 20, 2025
The Index of Race Law was launched to little fanfare in December 2022 by the Institute of Race Relations (IRR), as the only up-to-date and

A House divided – what now for the budget?
- By Jordan Griffiths
- . Mar 20, 2025
With the Minister of Finance having delivered the Budget Speech last week and various political parties indicating that they will not support the budget, the

What Rasool said: insights into the ANC mind?
- By Jonathan Katzenellenbogen
- . Mar 19, 2025
Ebrahim Rasool, the former South African Ambassador to the US whom the Trump administration kicked out of the country over the weekend, has been thrown

Trevor Noah: was integration a bad idea?
- By Ivo Vegter
- . Mar 19, 2025
South African expatriate comedian Trevor Noah set the internet on fire in a recent podcast when he questioned whether “integration was the right move”. “That